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TRACEABILITY TECHNOLOGY IS BRINGING SMALLHOLDERS OUT OF THE SHADOWS

Posted on March 27, 2018

By Ken Cottrill, Contributor ​ As someone who struggles to remember names, the notion of remembering 380,000 seems other-worldly. In a recent company announcement Starbucks’ Director of Traceability, Arthur Karuletwa, says: “since its beginning, Starbucks has known the names of the farmers within its supply chain, including the more than 380,000 farms it worked with last year alone.” Of course, Starbucks has a high-powered IT system to keep these names on... Read More

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